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projects and to build the wind energy turbines. so let's -- let's just not let this scenario become a reality. let's move in the way that the senate finance committee has showed us we can move. let's extend the p.t.c. here in the senate. i know the house could follow suit. let's just, simply put, pass the production tax credit as soon as possible. if we're focused on the economy, if we're focused on jobs -- this is what we heard from the voters just a short week ago -- let's get the production tax credit extended.madam president, i yiee floor. -- madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. hutchison: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas is recognized. mrs. hutchison: madam president, i think we all know that everybody in america is pretty much talking about the fiscal cliff. and what is happening at the end of this year is going to have an enormous impact on the economy of our country and its future. there's no doubt about it. in fact, the nonpartisan congressional budget office projects that the impending ta
projects and to build the wind energy turbines. so let's -- let's just not let this scenario become a reality. let's move in the way that the senate finance committee has showed us we can move. let's extend the p.t.c. here in the senate. i know the house could follow suit. let's just, simply put, pass the production tax credit as soon as possible. if we're focused on the economy, if we're focused on jobs -- this is what we heard from the voters just a short week ago -- let's get the production...
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Nov 9, 2012
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and i think when you get a situation where people have been spending most of their energy and time focused on their ill health or the ramifications of that with family members, there is not much space for doing the things we would like to see. so we have great ideas, wonderful examples of governance, education and so forth that we have seen and would like to spread, people don't have time for it. can focus on it. the vacancy, the vacuum created by that basic security invites trouble and in my experience this is where problems are. as i look around the world, there are a few areas that are well-educated and well defined and troubled, but vast areas that are troublesome that are all marked by lack of stability and so forth. these tieback pretty directly. it is a big world, a lot of different situations. >> the gentleman in the front and then we will get the uniform in the back. right here. >> i am ed vermont from the national institute of disease, and before that, i am a retired officer and i was actually recruited to and i age because of my military background. in 12 years ago, but director
and i think when you get a situation where people have been spending most of their energy and time focused on their ill health or the ramifications of that with family members, there is not much space for doing the things we would like to see. so we have great ideas, wonderful examples of governance, education and so forth that we have seen and would like to spread, people don't have time for it. can focus on it. the vacancy, the vacuum created by that basic security invites trouble and in my...
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Nov 8, 2012
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as for disagreements, the one that immediately leaps to mind is energy. keystone pipeline. i think that was -- if you had to sum up, you know, the mitt romney energy agenda and the house and congressional republican energy agenda, it begins with the k word, keystone pipeline and look to see what happens on that one. sort of to use the old isaac as move analogy, we've got the irresistible force of energy consumption and the immovable opposition of co2 and global warming which, obviously, got a boost in the wake of hurricane sandy, and we'll just have to see what happens. another category was -- things that didn't get talked about, and i think that's very unfortunate, first on that list i would talk about health care defined as medicine, defined as curing things. we've had for, you know, since the clinton era we've had the abundant discussions of health care finance, health care insurance, who should get insured, who shouldn't get insured, so on and so on. and during the same 20-year period, the number of -- the quantity of medicine actually emerging from the medical/scientif
as for disagreements, the one that immediately leaps to mind is energy. keystone pipeline. i think that was -- if you had to sum up, you know, the mitt romney energy agenda and the house and congressional republican energy agenda, it begins with the k word, keystone pipeline and look to see what happens on that one. sort of to use the old isaac as move analogy, we've got the irresistible force of energy consumption and the immovable opposition of co2 and global warming which, obviously, got a...
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drinks, 5-hour energy drinks and monster energy drinks. they've died after they've ingested these and they've raised serious questions as to whether or not there was causation between them. to find that there were 13 adverse event reports for people who died after consuming 5-hour energy drinks and five people who died after consuming these monster energy drinks -- for goodness sakes, these are for sale to kids across america. we wouldn't sell these kids alcohol over the counter without asking how old they were, whether they are the they've red an age where they're eligible to buy alcoholic products. bur we are selling products that could be more lethal than alcohol to these young kids without the necessary oversight and supervismtion i thank the senator from connecticut for joining me this this effort. we've got to continue it. "the new york times" yesterday made a report that i think puts us on notice there is a lot more to be done. mr. blumenthal: mr. president? the presiding officer: the if senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: tha
drinks, 5-hour energy drinks and monster energy drinks. they've died after they've ingested these and they've raised serious questions as to whether or not there was causation between them. to find that there were 13 adverse event reports for people who died after consuming 5-hour energy drinks and five people who died after consuming these monster energy drinks -- for goodness sakes, these are for sale to kids across america. we wouldn't sell these kids alcohol over the counter without asking...
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Nov 16, 2012
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, comprehensive energy policy that are not problems, but opportunity in the making so i am actually much more optimistic than some. as you mentioned, i have his desk, so that helps in the senate. they gave me gordon's desk by mistake, a little known senator from new hampshire, but they corrected. >> got the right one. the president gave a press conference, i don't know if you heard if, but was fiesy on the issue of taxes saying he was given a mandate in the election by the american people, not to continue to tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. there was one difference between romney and his campaign, and that was he opposes the idea of the wealth yi continuing to have tax cuts. if that's the position of the president and continues to be the position of the democrats, is that going to hold up in terms of budget negotiations with the republican colleagues? >> you know, i look at this in a simple way, and that's i want to bring the debt down, and when you look at the bush tax cuts, and how i explain it is people making over $250,000, that would be taxed at the bush level, even if they ma
, comprehensive energy policy that are not problems, but opportunity in the making so i am actually much more optimistic than some. as you mentioned, i have his desk, so that helps in the senate. they gave me gordon's desk by mistake, a little known senator from new hampshire, but they corrected. >> got the right one. the president gave a press conference, i don't know if you heard if, but was fiesy on the issue of taxes saying he was given a mandate in the election by the american...
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take a look at a place like oklahoma where energy state and you're supposed of conservatives are coming out in droves to vote against president obama. turnout looks to be down more than 5% and appears with almost all votes counted in oakland. a couple of wrong assumptions we made the overall this is a watershed election because with 84 house freshman in my count, 40 and democrats and 35 election. when you combine that with a few surviving members of the class of 2010, that's 166 members, more than one-third of the house will have less than three years of experience in congress takes office in january. so a huge new freshman class, very steep learning curve, and get ready for the fireworks. >> curtis. and again, you have, many of you have history port and the bbc's report on voter turnout. but tell us what happened and why spent the first and want to do is think dpc, and eric larson for making this report possible. wouldn't have been without them. i'm usually the chicken little of the analyst industry on the turnout, this time i was chicken little when it turned out to be right. which is
take a look at a place like oklahoma where energy state and you're supposed of conservatives are coming out in droves to vote against president obama. turnout looks to be down more than 5% and appears with almost all votes counted in oakland. a couple of wrong assumptions we made the overall this is a watershed election because with 84 house freshman in my count, 40 and democrats and 35 election. when you combine that with a few surviving members of the class of 2010, that's 166 members, more...